Echoes of Genius: From the Dawn of Electrical Recording to Hidden Violin Treasures
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
Percussionist Matthias Kaul comes at Cage from a background in rock and jazz drumming, and it shows in his sense...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2016
This is a thoroughly imaginative pairing of John Cage and Henry Cowell, especially coming after Cowell’s impressive showing as Composer...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 01/2016
Korean-born Sunwook Kim came to prominence in 2006 at the age of 18, when he won the Leeds International Competition....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2016
What a good title for this selection of famous 19th-century encores. The ‘Lady Harmsworth’ in question is a 1703 masterpiece...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016
As far as Armenians are concerned, music is inextricably bound up with loss. Every year, they gather to pay respects...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2016
Two discs from two Danish ensembles coincide to chart the history of the piano trio in the country from its...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2016
Isidora Žebeljan (b1967) grew up in a rural part of Serbia near the Carpathian mountains, where folk music criss-crossed between...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2016
Pamela Thorby’s new two-disc set looks at first glance pretty hardcore: one disc of sonatas with continuo and a second...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2016
He was unfashionable before anyone knew who he was. As Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen were advancing their arguments about...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2016
Whether one can hear shades of Schumann’s nervous collapse within his D minor Violin Sonata is very much up for...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2016
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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